Unix Shell - find a string in files

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find a string in files

Gary Wessle

2006-10-28, 7:39 pm

Hi
$ grep -FHrn string /path/
will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will
also find "stringing" and "strings".
how can I limit it to only "string"

thanks

Stephan Grein

2006-10-28, 7:39 pm

Gary Wessle wrote:
> Hi
> $ grep -FHrn string /path/
> will find occurrences of the string in files recursively, but will
> also find "stringing" and "strings".
> how can I limit it to only "string"
>

grep -FHwire string /path/

> thanks

np

P.S.: It's called a word boundary.

HTH,
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